After the International Urban Sketchers Symposium

If you want to see the  sketchbook flipthrough, go to my YouTube channel. 

During the International Urban Sketchers Symposium

Busy busy during the symposium. Flipthrough of the sketchbook on my YouTube channel. Some of these photos are not exactly in the right ordre! Lots of stickers exchanged during this symposium!

Back in Toulouse before the symposium

And it's good to have air-conditioning again. I never thought I'd say that, but with the climate-change-induced heatwaves we're having, even 17th century houses can't keep the heat out.

I'm not writing very much about our trip - you can hear everything about it on my YouTube sketchbook flipthrough.

A few days in Castelnaudary

We spent 4 nights in Castelnaudary, without air conditioning! It's a gorgeous little town, with lots to discover. And you can take a train to Carcassonne for a day trip too. Flipthrough video on my YouTube channel.

 

Open doors - Lagrasse

Nope. Didn't work. I lost my transparency and the sqare format doesn't work. I do love how the road looks, though. So all is not lost!

At this stage, I think I need to move away from the natural colours. Maybe paint it with minimal pigments. One warm, one cool, one dark, one light, one accent. And keep everything transparent!!

 

Flow?

Happy enough with this one. Half a quarter sheet, more or less, as I used masking tape to make it into a vertical format.  Can I develop this?

Procreate skeching

Still obsessed with my photos from our holiday in France last September. But finding it hard to capture the light and feel of the place. And somehow cars seem to be the central theme of all these places.

So I tried a version in Procreate, and I like this view better than the previous one.Well at least I feel it's more achievable. Can I do this in watercolour?